#lore-discussion

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real zealot
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?

golden oak
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I’d say similar because she’s shooting darts

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Unless you mean her original gun

silk lark
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He was experimented on in horizon lunar colony

quick grail
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like what event? the non canon crappy pve?

merry mason
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No, current events like what’s currently happening

real zealot
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so hamham and winton is killers?

golden oak
worthy rose
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So basically there was a pizza long time ago who formed overwatch to fight off the giant bagel and ever since they've been in a war just fighting but then the Mac and cheese came and RE formed overwatch Again and that's how we got overwatch 2 thank you very much for listening

spare fox
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!!shitposting

twilit nacelleBOT
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Shitposting will result in a loss of access.

worn latch
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If ur gonna shitpost at least be funny 💔

keen summit
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Theyre injected with either healing fluid or the decay fluid moira also uses, she switches darts in lore before she shoots so she already planned if she heals or not before

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The darts would hurt more in the head and likely would be lethal as its a type of poison or decomposing fluid, moira seems to use it foo

spare fox
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no

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Ana took Cass who was already a good shot under her wing

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but Widowmaker shot out Ana's bionic eye and her injury resulted in her going MIA and presumed dead

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that's an image edit

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it's not real

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it's either an edit or AI but it's not official art

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Ana knew Amelie Lacroix through Gerard enough to recognize her, but I don't think they had any more of a relationship than that that we know of

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there's no mention of her having any kind of expertise other than ballet prior to her kidnapping

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just one day she was kidnapped, turned into a sleeper agent, then she was returned and killed Gerard (no mention of how), and she like killing so much she requested modifications to make her a better killer. Thus Moira/Talon had her heartrate slowed to make her a better sniper and that's why she's blue and a good shot

golden oak
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Talon

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She claims to be trained by “the best” In her interaction with Ashe

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I mean that’s the only option
Militaries wouldn’t agree to train terrorists, would they?

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I mean the only ties with the government that we know of was Antonio

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I mean he had ties

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Since doom had to escape jail and not get bailed out like Antonio, I don’t think he has any

keen summit
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Vishkar us implied to not be about money

teal spear
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The gang is what i trust.

ruby raven
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hi

hushed jetty
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its been around for years

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its just rly good fanart

peak escarp
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it's old fanart

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I know the one you're talking about

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Amelie wasn't a sniper before Talon got their hands on her

hushed jetty
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fun headcanon though

dreamy shoal
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Can omnics feel emotions like happiness, anger, sadness, love? Stuff like that?

peak escarp
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yes

opaque tundra
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If Ramattra couldn’t feel then there would be no story missions

twilit patrol
twilit patrol
tropic sorrel
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Wsg people

tranquil silo
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Is echo considered an omnic ?? Or is she just smt else?? I've been kinda confused abt it

hushed jetty
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she's not an omnic technically

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sometimes "omnic" is used as a catch all term for all the robots in the game but she's . not

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she's like a really beefed up ai that can learn and copy really well

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like if siri or chatgpt were really really good

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but its mostly semantics imo since she isnt technically sentient but she might as well be to us

tranquil silo
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ooohhh yeah alr I see I see

native gulch
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Wait Echo isn’t sapient? Huh.

hushed jetty
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i said sentient

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idk if theyre synonyms

native gulch
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Though some people will say “sentient is able to perceive surroundings, sapient is true consciousness” or something

hushed jetty
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i wouldve thought it was the other way around

peak escarp
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most people do use them interchangeably, but they don't mean the same thing

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sentient is able to perceive things, sapient means "having wisdom" or being able to think rationally

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animals are sentient but not sapient (arguably; there have been sapience cases made for whales, gorillas, parrots, etc.)

hushed jetty
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i imagine in the context of overwatch thats not what they mean bc then echo would be sentient i imagine

peak escarp
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yeah

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OW uses sentient to mean sapient

worn latch
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Junkrat?? ☠️☠️☠️

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ASHE???

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Over widow????

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Or Hammond

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Or any of the omnics

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Or ana

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Even lifeweaver has more upsetting lore than ashe

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Nah hammonds is worse than winstons

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Did you read his short story?

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Where he talks about growing up in the lunar colony?

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The new short story in heroes ascendent makes his backstory seem way more upsetting

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Ahh basically he grew up and was naturally a bit smarter than the rest of his family, and they kept doing experiments on him and he was removed from the rest of his family after a while. I'm pretty sure he talked about how much the experiments hurt him, and after a while he learned that his family was all dead

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Recap

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I might've missed stuff I speedran that story

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Skill issue

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All my homies hate junkrat

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HES A PRETTY NERD

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Mauga is ugly and stupid

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I hope he dies

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Nuh uh

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Realistically lifeweaver would survive for quite a while he's been on the run from Vishkar for 11 years and he's still alive

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11 years

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Lifeweaver gets along with just about everyone I doubt they'd dislike each other

sinful wolf
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Wifeleaver

worn latch
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Lifeweaver is actually the most attractive character in the entire game

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WHO looks better than lifeweaver? This dude?

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Fanart?

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Why would that count

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Goofiest lifeweaver picture solos the best mauga picture you can capture

peak escarp
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first off, who cares

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second, attractiveness is subjective

worn latch
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Third off mauga is ugly

peak escarp
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LW doesn't do much for me

worn latch
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He's beaitful

peak escarp
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he's too femme

worn latch
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Beautiful

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Long hair

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That's basically it tho

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His facial structure is literally fantastical

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And his head actually fits his body (unlike mauga)

hushed jetty
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mauga's head being relatively small makes sense at least

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his musculature grew bc of having two hearts, it wouldnt change the size of his head

wind wind
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maauga tho >

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4 me

worn latch
worn latch
hushed jetty
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he Is silly

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he's a silly guy

worn latch
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Mauga would be the kinda guy to trip over a banana peel

tacit yoke
worn latch
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Lucio walks around wearing skates he's not slipping on anything his balance is crazy

worn latch
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Lifeweaver is in no way selfish

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skarss

worn latch
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Happens to every feminine queer man 😞

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Canon event

tacit yoke
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and he def a clean freak and takes 2 showers a day and brushes his teeth like 5 times those men exist

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he gonna sanitize you before touching him

worn latch
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Nah he's literally so messy and unorganized

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Like that's canon

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Symmetra is the one who's super cleanly

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She openly stated that lifeweaver is the opposite of her in that aspect

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Obviously he looks very put together but I doubt he's that clean

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Not to mention the fact he's constantly around plants

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So he's going to be getting down and dirty

tacit yoke
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oh I didnt know that

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then i take it back

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but thats my canon idk gives him character to me

worn latch
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Nah man I have a PhD in lifeweaverology

worn latch
tacit yoke
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fine just clock me like that then

hushed jetty
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lifeweaver is canonically kinda . gross LMFAO

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not in a super bad way bro is just messy

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like he left dishes in the sink n shit

worn latch
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He was probably so disgusting in the academy while he was working constantly

hushed jetty
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i just know his desk was awful

tacit yoke
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thats so disappointing to me

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what a shame

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being an uptight clean freak >>>

worn latch
worn latch
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Her entire character really

worn latch
tacit yoke
worn latch
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Lifeweaver is better than any man ever

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Beautiful man

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Literally jaw droppingly gorgeous fantastic amazing stunning beautiful everywhere he goes people stop and stare because he is literally just amazingly beautiful

wind wind
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hm

hushed jetty
worn latch
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He's thinking about what bouquet to get for our anniversary

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🙏

tacit yoke
worn latch
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Hanzo is old and stinky

tacit yoke
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well if he wasnt old

pale mountain
tacit yoke
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lifeweaver old too girl i just looked and 30 elderly to me

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i was gagged when i found out most heroes old

hushed jetty
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over half the cast is over 30 man

past copper
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Age ain’t nothin since people in Overwatch have longer lifespans

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Medical science came a long way to make that happen

worn latch
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What kind of accomplished adult isn't below 30

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Like these are world renowned scientists and inventors it's difficult to get that early on in your life

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Junk is the only male character I can think of below 30

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Oh wait

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He might be 30

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Isn't Lucio 29

hushed jetty
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lucio is 29 ish yeah

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ramattra is 28

worn latch
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Ramattra feels like a 40 year old man to me

hushed jetty
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lmfao

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no ur right

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he just Feels old

keen summit
golden oak
golden oak
merry mason
merry mason
peak escarp
worn latch
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Taurus lifeweaver

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Honestly I think of older characters to be in their late 40s and older

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30 isn't old

peak escarp
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we're lacking in male heroes under 35 and female heroes over 45

hushed jetty
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how old do you think venture will be

merry token
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IMO maybe mid to late 20s?

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I feel like whoever designed them was going for a more “youthful” look cause of their gap toothed grin

worn latch
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Yeah they definitely look younger

spare fox
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I'm gonna guess around 30, give or take a couple years

peak escarp
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that seems about right

native gulch
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Wow

peak escarp
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she's the youngest human hero

worn latch
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Poor girl 🙁

peak escarp
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to make it worse, it's likely that the solar threading ceremony happened on the longest day of the year, which in the southern hemisphere is Dec 21...

hushed jetty
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it's entirely possible that it happened on the day she turned 18

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which is awful

peak escarp
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no wonder she carries so much guilt

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I want more of her story

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she's the only hero we don't have an up to date location for (as of Invasion)

golden oak
hushed jetty
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i need a hero to have my birthday one day

golden oak
peak escarp
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I'm between Widow and Zarya

hushed jetty
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soldier is 3 days after me

golden oak
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How they chose their birthdays? Randomly?

peak escarp
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idk

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you'd have to ask the writers

merry token
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Got lifeweaver’a birthday LifeweaverRose

hushed jetty
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i presume it isnt random

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thatd be odd

golden oak
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Junkrat being Feb 29 was definitely intentional but what about the rest

worn latch
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Hi

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Lifeweaver mention

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Lifeweaver

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Lifeewbevvvacerr

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Ehegegegegegwgw

hushed jetty
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i imagine illari being born on a solstice was intentional

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as well as ana and sombra being news years eve and day

golden oak
hushed jetty
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shrugs

golden oak
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I would put torb dec 31 and brig Jan 1 bc
Father and daughter

sinful wolf
peak escarp
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he's 1 year older than me

bleak shell
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the magic of science

worn latch
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Magic of overwatch struggling to make any female characters look their age

peak escarp
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Overwatch's style does make everyone look a little younger

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but they look fine

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women don't look drastically older once they hit 40

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Moira absolutely does not look like she's in her 20s

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she's got greying hair and crows feet

wind wind
worn latch
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I love how they kept Moira graying

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Cuz there's no way she would ever care enough to cover it up ☠️☠️

peak escarp
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most people don't start greying in their late 30s

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I'm in my late 30s

worn latch
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Ay u never know

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Some people have the genee

peak escarp
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some people, sure

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but you can't make a general assumption that people in their late 30s have greying hair

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particularly people with red hair are resistant to greying - the stress of Moira's self experiments probably accelerated her greying

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which cancels out the redhead resistance

worn latch
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How was it an assumption

peak escarp
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I don't mean you

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the person guessing she was in her late 30s because she has greying hair

peak escarp
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my mom is 64 and only has a few strands of grey

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she's got red hair

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I wish I had gotten red hair

worn latch
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Why

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No one wants to be ginger

wind wind
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I mean... I do like there hair

worn latch
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You're the minority in that

peak escarp
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that's two

peak escarp
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rude

bleak shell
worn latch
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Ermmm that's not lore...

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Banned

peak escarp
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Rein, Sigma and JQ

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7'3"

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I forgot Bastion

worn latch
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Yeah I think mauga is up there with rein

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Orisa is tall it's low-key scary

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U give off 5'3

peak escarp
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5'3" sounds tall to me

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I'm 4'11"

hushed jetty
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im pretty sure mauga is visibly taller than bastion

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sigma's gotta be like 8 feet without floating its ridiculous

worn latch
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Ur cooked

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COOKED

wind wind
hushed jetty
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I'm 5 feet flat, only mfs i got on my side are lucio and torb

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something like that presumably

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medically, dwarfism is like shorter than 4'10 or so

worn latch
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I'm 5'11 angel

hushed jetty
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i think

worn latch
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I'm a freshman

bleak shell
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I'm 5'9 diverOK

spare fox
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I feel like that's not that tall for a male ? Am I crazy?

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It's not short but like a normal height ig

worn latch
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Hes 6'5

worn latch
spare fox
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Ah yeah thats p tall then

worn latch
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I'm aware 😞

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He's not even the tallest my uncle is around 6'7

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My mom's 5'9 about

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BRO 😭😭

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5'11 ain't even that tall 😭😭

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Absolutely

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Dmg boosted thorns go so hard

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Uhmmm 7 I think?

hushed jetty
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like 5

worn latch
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No it's 8

hushed jetty
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i might be a liar

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its more than 3

worn latch
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I checked

hushed jetty
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are you counting the grandkids

worn latch
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No

hushed jetty
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oug
what is that from

worn latch
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Idk

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Google

peak escarp
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Torbjorn has 4 named children

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Marta, Nils, Elvira and Brigitte

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he has 8+ grandchildren

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the children seen here are his grandchildren (and Brigitte)

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don't trust google for your answers

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Marta is a writer, Elvira is a neurosurgeon, Nils is an artist

drifting viper
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Brig doesnt get paid

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Shes the disappointment of the family

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Neither does nils probably

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Or marta

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Torb is the biggest winner in overwatch since he retired

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All the other old characters have sad lives

spare fox
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Marta's a pretty famous author of a weird paranormal romantasy series so she's probably doing pretty good

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it seems like it's some faux-Twilight and ACOTAR mashup homage

worn latch
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Who's stick figure is that

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😭😭

peak escarp
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that was before she had muscles

worn latch
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🙅‍♂️

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Nuh uh

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Her face reminds me of that one panel

peak escarp
worn latch
peak escarp
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she was a twig in her first appearance

worn latch
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She looks so goofy I hope they never draw her like that again

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U right tho

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I just assumed she always worked out

peak escarp
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she wasn't planned to be a hero back then

tacit yoke
zenith mango
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Wait so I just found one of the hero ascendant short stories on the Overwatch website thing

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Will they eventually post all the stories there?

tacit yoke
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then whats the lore on them being old af

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im not an ageist kitty im just curious

hushed jetty
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the omnic crisis happened like 30 years ago and most characters were alive during the crisis

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its that simple really

tacit yoke
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so you saying its random people random ages

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will we ever get a child

worn latch
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No

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Like we genuinely cant

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It would mess with the ratings

worthy rose
worn latch
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She's so terrifying in the comics

hushed jetty
worthy rose
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Like not child child

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But like 17

peak escarp
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she was 19

worthy rose
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Ah

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Why did you just pop up 😭

peak escarp
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I'm always here

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watching

worn latch
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🙁😥

worthy rose
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Oh! That's very...!

peak escarp
worn latch
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And especially with the fan base I doubt they'd ever make a child character knowing the type of stuff would be made about it

hushed jetty
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bro is sombra

tacit yoke
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yall an interesting community

worn latch
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Like even a child mentioned (the girl from soldiers cinematic) gets weird stuff made about them

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And also children revolving around violence gets really strange

tacit yoke
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I see the way people talk ab that hamster on twitter its not safe to add a kid

worn latch
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Hammond 🙁😞

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My boy

tacit yoke
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that poor thing

zenith mango
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Wait so I just found one of the hero ascendant short stories on the Overwatch website thing. Will they post more of them there?

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@peak escarp I call upon thee, heed my call and loreify me

peak escarp
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they might

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we don't know

zenith mango
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Also for anyone wondering that’s how we summon The Warlored

peak escarp
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unless I'm sleeping or at work

spare fox
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Where do you think JQ and WB's first stop on their "road trip" will be?

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Surely Junkrat and Roadhog will stowaway.. at least I hope. They did them so dirty at the end of Friendly Rivalry!

languid arrow
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wait what’s orisas backstory

peak escarp
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she was made by an 11-year-old genius to be the defender of Numbani after Doomfist smashed it up

tacit yoke
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@worn latch i just bought lw the skin in your pfp

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idk how to play him tho they gonna yell at me i fear

worn latch
tacit yoke
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is he like moira where you do both

tacit yoke
worn latch
tacit yoke
spare fox
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Use it for lifting ulting players
Enemies: orisa and Rein
Teammates: cass and soldier

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Or just getting up to high places on the map

tacit yoke
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i dont think hes for me its been a journey 😭

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i go to bed now I got church at 6 am

royal helm
tacit yoke
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can someone tell me the lore on widow why she fused with a spider

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i obsessed with her and just wondering why she like that

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she remind me of a monster high doll

tired tartan
past copper
hushed jetty
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would be a crazy plot twist though wouldnt it

past copper
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Amélie Lacroix the wife of Gérard Lacroix was kidnapped by Talon for a period of time

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Until Overwatch managed to track them down and bring her home

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Unknown to everyone, Talon had done something to Amélie that made her kill her husband and disappear again. Never to be seen or heard from for years

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Upon returning to Talon, they’d slowed down her heart to make her the perfect killer with no emotion, which had the small side effect of turning her skin blue

tacit yoke
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oh wow ..

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I was thinking she was like spider man or fused with it oop

charred estuary
worn latch
past copper
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So much as use something of theirs without perms and you face their wrath XD

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Probably why Blizzard makes it a point to make sure their heroes are completely unique and nothing like the same old DC or Marvel heroes

dreamy shoal
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So what is orisa supposed to be? A cow? A horse? A bull? A centaur?

tacit yoke
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and blizzard had a 3 billion net worth they can afford that if it came to it

golden oak
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Makes sense, but will always be a horse to me

golden oak
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Honestly I’m surprised overwatch didn’t collab with Marvel/DC yet

past copper
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Bc Blizzard aren’t like the creators of Fortnite. Selling out to conglomerate entertainment companies just to keep their game alive

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No offense to anyone who plays Fortnite

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That, and in terms of Disney, it’s literally their way or the high way if you work with them

empty jacinth
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Selling out to (story mode) keep their game (story mode) alive for money (story mode story mode is a scam)

native gulch
empty jacinth
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I want more story mode 😞

peak escarp
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we all want more story mode

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doesn't make it a scam

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it hasn't been cancelled

empty jacinth
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Why no story mode

past copper
empty jacinth
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The games been out for a bit add new missions please thanks

past copper
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Here’s you an idea how long it takes to write the story alone

30,000 – 50,000 words: 500 words/day = 60 – 100 days.
50,000 – 80,000 words: 500 words/day = 100 – 160 days.
80,000 – 100,000 words: 500 words/day = 160 – 200 days.

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That’s not even counting the hours having to build, design, and animate the heroes, the enemies, and the map all together

dusty snow
native gulch
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Actual coding to implement access

empty jacinth
native gulch
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And monetization, for that matter

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Of course the actual coding being done should take significantly less time and is probably done by an entirely separate team than the writers and character designers

past copper
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Don’t know how long this stuff takes

peak escarp
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and even if you have all that, you have to wait for the higher-ups to say "yes, put that in the game"

native gulch
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Oh yeah and the corporate bureaucracy nonsense

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Can’t forget about that

empty jacinth
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Damn

past copper
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People need to think like this. It takes time to create a series. It takes time to film a movie. And it takes a lot of time to make a continuously updated game

empty jacinth
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No new mission

native gulch
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You ever tried DMing for a TTRPG table? Doing that for a bit should give you even an inkling of what kind of effort and time they put into this

empty jacinth
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I’ve dm’d dnd

past copper
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Not everything can be done as fast like a fake artist typing into a AI to make a picture for them

native gulch
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Maybe not even an inkling, like that’s probably less than 1% the kind of thing they’re doing

native gulch
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Such as DND, Pathfinder, Lancer

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Blades in the Dark

empty jacinth
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Well then yea I have

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For the most part on the fly it’s not too hard but then again the only story I’ve had to do that with was with my brother

errant pike
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diva + widowmaker fanfiction...go

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I aim to devestate...your clit

hushed jetty
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...ew.

peak escarp
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NSFW is not allowed

golden oak
night elbow
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Newbie reporting. Want to make more friends

golden oak
peak escarp
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it probably is

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as for why we don't have it yet... 🤷‍♀️

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blame Kotick

hushed jetty
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im hoping and coping that theyre remastering all the missions for higher standards based on what they did with cosmic crisis and that halloween mode we got a while ago, including the invasion ones and archives

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but this is HARD cope

spare fox
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me too 😩 it's also getting harder and harder to hope about the dev update on the 19th

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it's been mentioned by two content creators now that future PvE is likely back-burnered or scrapped, though I'm pretty sure neither of those ccs were at the recent summit at blizzard so

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idk, it's just discouraging that two of them have brought it up even though nothing is officially confirmed

peak escarp
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it's just speculation

hushed jetty
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dev update will at least give us venture news (and presumably the date of the test weekend) and the mythic changes they mentioned at blizzcon

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and "more"

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only 36 hours left... hgnghngh....

worn latch
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I'm so excited for venture

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Might honestly ditch lifeweaver for them

golden oak
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So it looks like we’ll get pve missions once a year (at least a year)

hushed jetty
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thatd make sense, thats what im hoping for

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something like every 6 seasons maybe

golden oak
spare fox
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Here's hoping

golden oak
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Very hopeful speculations

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Once a year would be nice but might not be reality

spare fox
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Though it did take them what like 6 years to come up with the 3 we got so... 🙃

past copper
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To be fair, between a dick for a CEO holding them back and a number of suits (many connected with said CEO), and recently a significant number of layoffs

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It’s no wonder progress was and probably still is slowed down significantly

keen summit
spare fox
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true

keen summit
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Look at stylosa making a "wtf monetisation!" Video every season, maybe 2 per season

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No new comments just the same stuff said again

past copper
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Honestly, you should never trust content creators on games

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They will make vids on anything on a game if it means they get views out of it

spare fox
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ugh stylosa

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On the one hand I like him enough but he really should move on from overwatch

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I love how lately his ow vids are like "NO ONE CARES about PvE" and then he's obsessed with HD2 and has been posting vids on it

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Like my guy that's PvE

past copper
#

Yea, well Stylosa will say and post whatever to keep his channel alive

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He’s just one of many examples of ALL gaming content creators

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Fr, he’s almost up there with Dream

keen summit
# spare fox ugh stylosa

I liked him cuz hexwas down to earth, now every sibgle vid is basically just "blizzard what are you doing"

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Never goving credit when a gpod change happens

spare fox
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yeah I agree to the point where a bit ago I was saying "ok bro I think you need a break" and now I don't really watch them much if at all anymore

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I have been liking Omnic Post much more, though he's not the quickest on reporting (he's still pretty new)

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he seems to actually love the game/franchise

keen summit
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It just is obvious most do those thingsfor content, i once saw pneof those many im leaving overwatch post just to see that the next day they just posted overwatch again etc

keen summit
#

whoever is constantly sending server invites, send it to me

civic vault
#

what is genjis black watch mask used for?

keen summit
keen summit
#

not again

next jewel
#

Is it canon that Roadhog doesn't seem to fear Overwatch or Talon? Because in game he can say "More like Over-rated laughing" (Overwatch member present) and "Oh no, it's Talon! laughs" (Talon member present)

keen summit
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i mean

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makes sense

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hog didnt even care bout his execution and stayed calm during it\

worn latch
#

Hog is just "😐" all the time

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Man feels nothing

spare fox
#

He's seen the apocalypse. He is the apocalypse. The man gives zero effs

peak escarp
#

what

golden oak
prime fossil
#

Roadhog is rn redundant to the story

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Only thing is that he loves Ana

worn latch
#

Real

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Who doesn't love ana

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(Widowmaker doesn't exist)

quick grail
#

we may just come back to 6vs6 and bring back assault at least if ow2 was never going to be made

past copper
#

Wow. A site known for relying on clickbait to get people to read anything they post. How very reliable

native gulch
#

Indeed…

past copper
#

Note how they don't use any employee names either. Not even Kellar's name is on it

quick grail
#

Every video game site uses click bait, every single one, but click bait usually isn't as elaborated, I trust more kotaku than ow developers who keep saying big things are coming for ow and pve is still on te works

empty jacinth
quick grail
#

Fuck their scam monetization and missions, I will never pay for anything

empty jacinth
#

I enjoyed them though there was like no one to play with

peak escarp
#

!!loreonly

twilit nacelleBOT
#

This channel is for serious discussion strictly related to the lore of Overwatch. Shitposting will result in a loss of access.

peak escarp
empty jacinth
#

No

quick grail
#

40 min of gameplay and 15 of story, 4 years in development

empty jacinth
#

If they cancel missions then we didn’t get everything we played for

wind wind
empty jacinth
#

Payed*

peak escarp
#

they're not going to remove the missions from the game

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you didn't pay for future missions

empty jacinth
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Idk if they do actually cancel it though it’s a missed opportunity to have you play through the (or a) story which is probably very good

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Idk

peak escarp
#

I agree with that

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all that matters is that the lore will continue

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in whatever form

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short stories, animations, origin stories, etc.

empty jacinth
#

I’d react with 💯 but they don’t allow it

merry token
#

You just don’t have react perms

native gulch
#

Yeah just stick around

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You get image and react perms quickly enough

spare fox
#

I had them but they were removed. Did I do something wrong or do they just decay?

quick grail
spare fox
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They just need to make a mini series, or a bunch of mini series. It doesn't need to be a full blown spectacular drama like Arcane

spare fox
#

And a short came out in December

peak escarp
quick grail
#

Side stories that couldn't matter at all

peak escarp
#

literally the main plot

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pay attention

quick grail
#

Tell me more about it

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What plot

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Another scam, paying to get the plot

spare fox
#

Wdym side stories? That IS the story

peak escarp
#

Null Sector's invasion of the world and Overwatch's respons to their attack

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that's the main plot

spare fox
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Ok you're just being contrarian bc you want to be negative

quick grail
#

Tell what happens, how the menace of null sector or talon, remember talon was the main enemy?, is fight

spare fox
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Heroes Ascendent is the story of how various heroes each grapple with internal and past conflicts while they are confronted with the Null Sector invasion

peak escarp
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you don't even need to pay to see the story, people have uploaded it on youtube

quick grail
#

But what happens

peak escarp
#

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quick grail
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That's not the book, is the scam missions of only 20 of plot that goes to nowhere because ends on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved

peak escarp
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why are you here

native gulch
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Trolling

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Just mute ‘im

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Default discord pfp lookin

quick grail
#

So, nothing happens in the book?

peak escarp
#

heroes fight Null Sector

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like spookycakes already told you

quick grail
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But what else? Anything important, meaningful, anc, character meets another character, any step forward to stop null, sector? Or just a random encounter thst ads nothing and is like I said a side story?

prime fossil
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So they actually cancelled the campaing fully ? ? ?

peak escarp
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I'm not going to spoil the entire book here because you don't care enough to read it yourself

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yes heroes meet each other, discoveries are made, important things happen

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but if you want to know the details, read the stories yourself

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you probably don't even have to buy the book, someone has probably uploaded the whole thing online already

prime fossil
#

I cant paste the picture here

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This book ?

peak escarp
#

this one

prime fossil
#

Damn theres 2 books ?

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Is the 1st one cannon or not

peak escarp
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they 're both canon

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the Anthology is just a bunch of the comics put into a book

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you can read them for free on the Overwatch website

prime fossil
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Ill buy them

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I love hard covers

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maybe with the money from them they could make A STORY MODE

peak escarp
#

if only

quick grail
quick grail
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Is a lore channel and don't want to talk about lore, spoil me, tell me about this lore, if really something is happening what's the problem?

peak escarp
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you're spreading misinformation and being a general nuisance

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like I said, if you look hard enough you can find it for free online

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I'm not going to spoonfeed you the entire lore

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if this continues you will be muted

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final warning

prime fossil
#

So sad, game with such good lore, addicting design, awesome character is owned by Activision. The battle pass / skin shop addicts

peak escarp
#

?

prime fossil
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Activision owns blizzard ye ?

peak escarp
#

yes

prime fossil
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so they have the main saying in stuff

peak escarp
#

they're not the first to add battlepasses

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and not even the worst ones

prime fossil
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I know but they're forcing it into everything.

peak escarp
#

every major multiplayer game has a battlepass

prime fossil
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Just wish OW got bought by something else

peak escarp
#

they're not forcing anything, they're following a trend

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if you want to blame anyone for battlepasses, blame Fortnite

prime fossil
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I do

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LITERALLY

peak escarp
#

but anyway, this isn't lore

quick grail
# peak escarp you're spreading misinformation and being a general nuisance

@prime fossil I post a link, better source than anything blizzard have talked about the pve because they literally have said nothing about the pve, lack of information, an article saying is pretty much cancelled, confirmed, I really don't know what you expect to happen, like blizzard will relase what?

peak escarp
#

the article does not say PvE is cancelled "confirmed"

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it says the future is uncertain

spare fox
past copper
#

Seriously, just mute or ban this doomer troll

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They’ll say anything regardless of having facts or not

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They think they’re always right and entitled to everything in regards to Overwatch

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I really would not be surprised if this guy was Stylosa himself the way he talks

quick grail
#

really, i got a wanrning about trolling? good thing this is about serious discussions

quick grail
spare fox
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Yup you uncovered it. It's all a scam and Blizzard is lying to you and wants you to be miserable. That's how they're making all that money. eyerollpharah

quick grail
#

225 million sound like a lot but for blizzard it isnt, ow1 made one billion in the same time

viral tendon
quick grail
#

yeah, the price of two skins or one skin if the game was on disscount, pay once and get 6 years of free constant content

viral tendon
#

Oh makes sense, the skins like the recolour kiriko skin are ridiculously overpriced

keen summit
#

honestly, jq was very fun in friendly rivalry

viral tendon
keen summit
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its not overpriced, why? cuz in its own genre its the norm

viral tendon
#

Then again I haven’t played Apex or League in a couple weeks

keen summit
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just rn, theres an active event with ONLY recoulours u can buy

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and a recolour heirloom for u guessed it 150+ euro

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so your choice, 150+ dollar recoulour or what ow has

viral tendon
#

Shittt damn I haven’t played either in like 2 months what happened lmao

keen summit
#

theyve been selling recolours like that a while

spare fox
#

!!loreonly

twilit nacelleBOT
#

This channel is for serious discussion strictly related to the lore of Overwatch. Shitposting will result in a loss of access.

keen summit
#

why would it be zarya

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it depends on what u see as smartest

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it would likely be between sigma when sane, doom strategist or moira and lw for science

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not really

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shes not dumb

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but not like SUPER SMART

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no.

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she has a toblestein

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toblesteins were sigmas rivals

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they caused sigma to rush his research

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which well, caused the accident

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not zarya, she simply uses the gun.

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efi is not to be forgotten

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zarya could track down sombra tho

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but sigma atm, we cant really say

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doomfist is insanely smart in tactics, same with ram, ram is smart too

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but it would likely be between lw moira

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lw created biological life

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like

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light that is legit alive basically

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moira is also very smart tho

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his biolight is natural material that he can just create

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thing is, like TONS of heroes are VERY smart

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hammond too, winston too

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and mercy

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mercy is also up there

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yeah, winston

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and soldier

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hammond too

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even hog

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yep

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but not as good as those

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jq but shes also reckless

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and dumb mostly

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dva too

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except mauga is actually smart

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mauga acts dumb

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jq is dumb

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oh and cant forget sojourn for strategy

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she was often a commander

peak escarp
#

Overwatch has several heroes with genius-level intellects

worn latch
keen summit
#

but its very hard to say anything bout BEST strategist, or smartest or whatever

peak escarp
#

Sigma, Mercy, Winston, Hammond, Lifeweaver

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plus Efi as an honorable mention

worn latch
#

31

keen summit
keen summit
keen summit
peak escarp
#

13 and already designing and programming robots? kid's a genius

worn latch
#

In the short story it's confirmed that he was 20 when he left the academy, so he also made biolight when 1. He was most likely a minor and 2. Between schoolwork and all of the other things Vishkar probably had him doing

keen summit
#

not to mention one that could go toe to toe with doom

worn latch
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I can't wait to see what other stuff she is

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Does

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Wtf

keen summit
#

sadly she is unimportant

worn latch
#

🙁

keen summit
#

but efi id call smartest for like, potential

worn latch
#

Yes definitely

peak escarp
#

the Orisa story in HA implied that they will join Overwatch, so we'll have to see if that happens

worn latch
#

She'll have to be an adult first

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How old is she now?

peak escarp
#

13

worn latch
#

Damn

keen summit
#

cuz atm shes not as smart as say the others. but if she keeps learning she'll be the smartest

peak escarp
#

she wouldn't be doing combat missions

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that would just be Orisa

peak escarp
#

but she could consult for Overwatch

worn latch
#

Young Sheldon ass

peak escarp
#

genius children often get special privileges

keen summit
#

tbh, efi seems to have it all

peak escarp
#

none of the heroes are really stupid - even Junkrat, who seems stupid, is smart enough to build his own explosives

keen summit
#

she has emotional, engineering, scientific (understood toblestein reactor) and strategy as orisa ofcourse needs to have been taught how to fight

worn latch
#

I can't spell wtf

keen summit
#

i mean

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his cinematic

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jq is kinda dumb tho, but she can remember stuff n all

peak escarp
#

she has social smarts

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she knows how to get people to follow her

keen summit
#

thing is, jq is like the average intelligence

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like a person who knows how to talk etc

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shes not super smart, but shes liek a normal person

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but it comes off as compaaritevely not smart cuz all others are kinda

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well widow is the same

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and leading

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leading

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being a leader

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reaper mightve been the dumbest actually

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yeah

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reaper seems the dumbest

worn latch
#

I feel like queen seems a lot smarter in her cinematic but they dumbed her down in game

keen summit
#

he has barely any tactics, just shoot. in most of his fights that is

worn latch
#

Which happens a lot with their characters, where they overplay one key aspect of a personality

keen summit
#

he has been bested multiple times

keen summit
worn latch
peak escarp
#

the in-game dialogue does play up the haha dumb musclehead aspect

worn latch
#

I CANT SPELLLL

keen summit
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id say reaper would be the dumbest, as he also often was well too rash

keen summit
worn latch
keen summit
#

hes constantly trying to shoot mauga

worn latch
#

Reapers just a silly feller

keen summit
#

yeah im fine with calling reaper the dumbest

worn latch
#

Over rein?

keen summit
#

does that mean hes an idiot? no.

worn latch
#

Genuine question

keen summit
#

rein is actually an idiot, but means well

peak escarp
#

all the heroes are a lot more nuanced in the text than in the game

worn latch
#

Himbo

worn latch
#

She seems so different in her cinematic to me

keen summit
worn latch
#

Yeahh

keen summit
#

comic dva is slightly different from cinematic dva, we never get aluded to her actually fixing her own mech further. and dva in game is a dumb gamer girl

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yet she fixes her own mech

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she still had to instruct him what to do

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nope

worn latch
#

Yeah I wouldn't say dva is stupid

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She's also a child basically

peak escarp
keen summit
#

shes the "overworked self sufficient" girl

worn latch
#

She's going to act like a young adult would act

peak escarp
#

she was forced to mature quickly

worn latch
#

Bro doesn't seem very mature in game 😭

keen summit
#

my gripe with dva truly is how she just cant stay consistent

worn latch
#

Same with kiriko at times

keen summit
#

atleast ingame

worn latch
#

That's why I like symmetra

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She's written very well to me

keen summit
#

for in game writing i want them to stay consistent

peak escarp
#

Symmetra is very well written

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and they don't downplay her autism

keen summit
#

like we have in game for dva a voiceline about her being overworked, and a line for "i prepped all night for this mission, oh and maybe gamed a little too :3"

keen summit
peak escarp
#

yes

keen summit
#

they make it not be quirky, but just part of symmetra

peak escarp
#

it's handled well

keen summit
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cuz lots of games would make it well, their thing

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not just games, but shows too

worn latch
# peak escarp and they don't downplay her autism

YES!!! this was my favorite thing in her new short story they go out and say it, like they don't hide behind it or anything they full on say "her autism". And also they talk about how it actually disables her with all her sensory issues

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Ah it's great

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And I like the detail about her stimming too

keen summit
#

it shows sym as an actual good representation of it

peak escarp
#

and the way Lifeweaver respects and accommodates her sensory issues, offering a private car on the hypertrain

worn latch
#

Sym is one of the best written autistic characters to me

worn latch
#

And he also encouraged her stimming

keen summit
#

agreed, shes great

worn latch
#

🙁🙁🙁🙁 I love them

keen summit
#

ive actually not given sym enough credit

worn latch
#

She's so me

keen summit
#

cuz again, my biggest criteria for writing is consistency and being able to kinda understand them, maybe guess how theyd react to certain situations

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and sym does that very well too

worn latch
#

Mhm

peak escarp
#

the really impressive part is that Symmetra is so well written and consistent across multiple authors

worn latch
#

Fr

keen summit
#

ngl from what ive read ascendant is really good

worn latch
#

I think that it's just because she's so consistent in and out of game that it's easier to write her

worn latch
peak escarp
#

Ascendant is excellent

keen summit
#

ive read the junkers one and was hooked

peak escarp
#

it fills in what everyone else was doing during Invasion

worn latch
#

Hopefully we will get more lifeweaver stuff next book (I'm praying y'all)

peak escarp
#

well, everyone except Illari and Sigma

keen summit
#

yeah

worn latch
#

Illari 😞

keen summit
#

but tbf, atp its expected

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hopefully peru map wil ldrop soon

worn latch
#

Imagine like the ruined and burned landscape of where it happened being in the map

keen summit
#

atm illari is just like the tree in a play

peak escarp
#

I want to see Illari find peace and forgive herself for what happened

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it wasn't your fault girl

keen summit
#

and they might be hunting her down

worn latch
#

I think lifeweaver and illari should meet he could help her heal better than any other characters

peak escarp
#

I think her and Hanzo could bond over self-loathing 😛

keen summit
worn latch
#

Free my girl

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She did no wrong

peak escarp
#

we don't even know if that explosion is something she can do again

keen summit
#

cuz i want it to be more complicated than what i predict aka, join overwatch, saving people and hearing it wasnt her fault, eventually accepting it

peak escarp
#

or if it was just a malfunction of the solar threading apparatus

keen summit
worn latch
#

I'd be disappointed if she joined overwatch tbh

keen summit
#

maybe they want to make solar threading thing again to make her a litereral bomb

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that wasnt truely her fault either

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its like overcharging a battery and then telling the battery it was bad cuz it blew up

peak escarp
#

average

worn latch
#

Battle iq seems high in that aspect she was a prodigy

peak escarp
#

she hasn't really shown any genius level intellect

worn latch
#

But regularly she seems average

keen summit
#

illari just is a girl who has studied

#

but again, theres very few interactions about any type of intellect

peak escarp
#

genius level intellect: Lifeweaver, Mei, Mercy, Moira, Sigma, Winston, Hammond
tactical genius: Ana, Doomfist, Junker Queen, Reaper, Sojourn, Soldier 76
street smarts: Ashe, Baptiste, Cassidy, Kiriko, Lucio, Pharah
worked hard to get good: D.Va, Illari, Sombra, Symmetra, Tracer, Widowmaker, Torbjorn
average intelligence: Brigitte, Genji, Hanzo, Reinhardt, Roadhog, Zarya
robot: Bastion, Echo, Orisa, Ramattra, Zenyatta
smarter than they look: Mauga, Junkrat

peak escarp
#

I was thinking more of people specifically noted to have impressive combat skills

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Pharah is just average in that regard

spare fox
#

I specifically remember in Declassified it specified that Reinhardt had average school marks. Not sure why that sticks out to me lol

#

Hm and the ones in "average intelligence," they all have highly specialized skills and/or abilities, kind of an overlap with "worked hard"

peak escarp
#

true

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I didn't put much thought into it

spare fox
#

It's not really cut and dry

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It's kind of what makes them all such good characters

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You don't get that "why doesn't so and so character solve all the world's problems??" - they all have limitations and circumstances and conflicts holding them back

stoic rose
#

Where can I learn the lore? Learned there was a comic series, where can i find it? And does it start from the very beginning?

peak escarp
peak escarp
#

he doesn't have a formal education

worn latch
#

He was a mercenary for years

#

He has a military education or whatever

peak escarp
#

but not like, university

worn latch
#

Neither did jq

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Also Cass was in overwatch and blackwatch and made a name for himself as a mercenary

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I think he'd be just as talented as reaper in that regard

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Maybe not

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Like

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JUST

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But enough to be in a team with him and keep up

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He also took out a fully armed gang in his cinematic

peak escarp
#

exactly

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street smarts

spare fox
#

Idk I guess he did have medical training as a medic. He's probably just as "intelligent" as like an emt or army medic, no idea off the top of my head what kind of training and education that requires

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So a medic is basically an EMT, then there's a paramedic which is the highest level of EMT and requires 6-12 months of training, courses and licensure

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So ig it depends on where he fell on that spectrum in the Coalition and Talon

quick grail
#

another update of was coming next season and something was missing

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get golden weapons again i think

peak escarp
#

that isn't confirmed

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also that isn't lore

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no

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that was a rumor from 4chan

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not likely

#

the "leak" got some things wrong from the dev update this morning

worn latch
worn latch
peak escarp
#

is he talking about himself?

worn latch
#

Yes

peak escarp
#

when could he have gotten several doctorates?

worn latch
#

Dunno but he's very obviously talking about himself

#

In his short story he was also working at a hospital

peak escarp
#

also it's weird for him to say "I met someone the other day" when referring to himself

#

typically someone would say "I know a guy" when they don't want someone to know they're talking about themself

worn latch
#

Who else would he be talking about?

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And listen to his tone lol

#

He's talking about himself

worn latch
peak escarp
#

I was more referring to where they got their knowledge from

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learning from life experience rather than a formal education = street smarts

#

Baptiste could be talking about someone else

worn latch
#

He isn't

#

Trust me ☠️

peak escarp
#

crazy how his multiple doctorates were never mentioned anywhere else

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and he was so strapped for money that he had to join Talon, yet he could afford the tuition for multiple doctorates

hushed jetty
quick grail
#

lol what?

quick grail
# worn latch There's also this

now that you remind me, this season got 0 new interactions, the shitty pve event have no interactions at all, and this season was made before everyone got fired, so next season will have even less lore?

hushed jetty
#

"0 new interactions" nuh uh

#

theres at Least one, the moira mauga one

opaque tundra
#

verguco please touch grass and i mean this in the nicest way possible

#

anyway i love venture already

peak escarp
#

they've been dealt with

#

moving swiftly on

twilit patrol
#

Thanks god he got muted

hushed jetty
#

THEY LOOK SO GOOD TOO

fresh rock
#

Ooooo they have a cute tooth gap

#

The model looks great

tacit yoke
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canadian

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Handsome is correct tho 🙏

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Like at all

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That would be funny tho

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How many people with doctorates could bap possibly know?

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Moira? Sigma?

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  1. He has friends
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  1. I doubt he'd be talking about someone in talon to someone in overwatch
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I doubt having a bounty makes you immune to having friends !

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Would you have many friends when you’re being actively hunted?

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And he's talking about himself

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Which has been established

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What’s the line delivery like

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Baptiste flirts with EVERYONE he's very clearly flirting with mercy

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It doesn’t sound like he’s talking about himself

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He has friends

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I bet he doesn’t actually have the doctorates but is definitely talking about himself

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When did bap get several doctorates

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Seems like a thing Bap would do for shits and giggles

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He’s a field medic

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Medic and doctor r basically the same thing idk

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Hell no

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Noooo

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Yuh huh

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If it was no one would study medicine

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Dunno but he's very very very obviously talking about himself

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Go listen to the vl

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Even Him talking about sigma makes more sense to me

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Literally how

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Did he even know sigma?